Letter No. AB2/16227/2019, NHIS 2018 Pensioner Details Request

Purpose and scope

Letter Number AB2/16227/2019, issued by the Member-Secretary, Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority, on 2 September 2020, concerns health insurance for pensioners and family pensioners of the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority. It requests details of the pensioner or family pensioner and, where relevant, the pensioner's spouse.

The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority adopted the health care assistance provided through United India Insurance Company Limited under Government Order Ms. Number 222, Finance (Pension) Department, dated 30 June 2018.

Insurance and deductions

The letter records the following terms:

• The annual premium payable by the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority is Rs.3,800 plus Goods and Services Tax, as applicable from time to time, for each pensioner or family pensioner.
• The premium applies for the four year block from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2022.
• The medical insurance claim limit is Rs.4 lakh for each pensioner, including the spouse, for the four year block.
• Premium payments are regulated by the agreement between the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority and United India Insurance Company Limited.
• The premium initially paid by the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority is recovered from pensioners and family pensioners at Rs.350 per month through pension or family pension deductions from January 2020.

Information requested

The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority asked pensioners and family pensioners to submit the prescribed form in duplicate to the Personnel Manager, Administration (Bills) Division, before 30 November 2020. The form requests:

• Pension Payment Order details and the pension disbursing office.
• Names and photographs of the pensioner, family pensioner and spouse, where applicable.
• Bank account, address and contact information.
• Pension amount, date of birth, retirement details and former office or department.
• Legal heir information.

The pensioner or family pensioner must certify that the information is correct. The Pension Disbursing Officer must verify it against pension records and certify the recovery of the subscription.

Who may exercise an option

The New Health Insurance Scheme, 2018 is described as compulsory. Option forms are provided only for specified categories, including All India Service pensioners, recipients of All India Service family pension, pensioners whose spouse is a State Government employee, couples who are both pensioners, persons receiving both pension and family pension, and persons drawing more than one family pension.

Property relevance

Letter Number AB2/16227/2019 deals only with pensioner health insurance administration. It does not set out any land ownership, development, planning permission or property transaction requirement.